haha I know this one real @$$&(#$-oh wait thats me

anyways I see people with catalyzers and I try my best to help but a teammate kills something with 15 tags on it

My favorites are always the ones who insist on taking their Drakon into C42... then spamming its AoE abilites constantly.

You know who you are.

Bad teammates? I've never encountered any.

Well you can't blame your team members for behaving poorly. That's like blaming the mecha knight companion, or saying that the trojan just wasn't turning his back to you. The bottom line is that you still lost, and that you just weren't good enough to solve the situation- your team has nothing to do with that. Your mistake may have been selecting poor team members for your run, but it was still your mistake if you are salty about it afterwards.

ok

Teammaste with weapons like:
-Pulsar (except in a few levels)
-Voltedge
-Blast Bomb
-Divine Avenger
-Calibur
-Dark Retribution
are indeed annoying.

Teammates who are just playing bad probably don't have the experince yet.

Teammates who want to troll are okay as long as it is original; if you can't manage to survive longer than they, you are just too bad. Let them have their fun, unless it's in a Shadow Lair, but i don't think many people troll there.

when people use a sword and knock enemies away from your blitz charge

when you go AFK for a bit and someone hammers you WAIT I DO THAT

I told someone to come grab the loot from some treasure boxes I opened and that noob kicked me.

Ever since I got sick of playing with the greater half of the population, I restrained my parties to reliable guildmates/friends or solo. Solo is easier for getting things done your way, such as how I like to put all the Grim Totems in the way of the Wheel Launchers in the first Gate room in FSC depth 24. Most people I play with like to carry it all the way outside the room and use the Heavy statues instead.

Anyway on to bad teammates...

Noobs:
I'm sorry, I just don't have the patience for noobs.

People who interfere with my playstyle:
...Such as people who knock monsters out of the Electron's radius before it detonates, run around charging a weapon while aggro'ing a Trojan and waiting for me to kill it.

People who beg and complain:
This really gets on my nerves more than it should, when people complain about lag, especially. Seriously, I live on the corner of the server's reaches, with over 300 ping on US and 400 on EU and you people are complaining? I'd consider myself a lucky bastard to even get 2 bars.

If you don't want people to join your party, set it to restricted?

Well, my worst experience was ages ago. Back when we had mist revives.

As a F2P player, I didn't have much energy to spare. I joined a random party doing a Vanaduke run and managed to land a horrid player who believed he could take on the whole world.
At the time, I wasn't fully 5*, so I was willing to let him take the blunt of the damage, and just sat back for the grind. Suddenly, I realize this player sucks, and he dies within seconds. Because I thought that I could rely on him, I wasn't really playing that well and just spammed a few bursts of my combuster and was dead pretty quickly as well.
This genius is like, "oi dude. pass me some mist. I got dis. fo real."
I was like eeeeh, fine. I hand him some mist for a revive and watch him run around, not revving any other players and dwindling his health. Not thinking much of it, I let him die, revived and we went onto the next few levels.
Once again, I find my whole team dead, and this guy asking for another mist revive. Almost having wasted all my precious mist, I was like eeh, but then I gave him some due to his begging, letting him continue to blunder his way throughout the level, literally taking us nowhere, and he hadn't even put thought to reviving us with his health.
Needless to say, he died again.

This got my blood curdling. I shouted out into Vanadukes lair, "IF YOU WANT TO GO HERO MODE, DO IT PROPERLY!"
Declaring my revenge on the game and the player, I revived myself and completely annihilated the entire lair. With zombies strewn about me, my dead team-mates watched in awe as a 4* player kicked ass around the map, treating zombies as though they had the health of dust bunnies.

Setting my mighty combuster upon my back, I stepped onto the elevator, knowing all eyes were on me. I then left the party, having made a dramatic scene, completely reducing this "vanguard" back to his rightful place as squire.

>:D

And that is my worst team experience.

How about you guys? :D

Whoa, I am amazed that someone who has no idea what special damage is and how it works could reach knight rank, maybe the game is way too easy like some peeps say... or maybe not, I blame missions.
I remember one time I had a very depressing conversation with a newb knight that went something like this:

Newb: Hi, do you know where i can buy stuff?
Me: You're standing in front of the auction house.
*I point towards the AH and the dude goes, checks it out and shortly replies*
Newb: Where do i get crown? (at this point it already gets ridiculous because he should have already figured that out in the way from rescue camp to haven)
Me: you go to the clockworks or do some missions, monsters die, you get crowns.
Newb: Where are the clockworks
Me: Did you even do the haven missions yet, all the questions you're asking me should have already been answered by them.
Newb: Yes. (annoyingness intensifies)
Me: Ok, go do them again, and this time READ what the npcs are trying to tell you.
Newb: Where are missions? (FFFFFFFFFFFFffffffffffffffffffffff)
Me: (I don't remember quite well what I told him but the thing is that I showed him where to find missions)
Newb: I cannot start missions
after trying for a while to get him to start that mission as hard as I could the dude still failed and failed and I literally ragequit.

Now getting on topic my worst experience with other players in a party was probably when I was 3* and tried to do a JK run with 2 randoms and a friend of mine, we were having a bit of a hard time because we were all 3* knights in that party, suddenly one of the random dudes starts calling me and my friend mexicans (because my friend didn't know english so we spoke in spanish between us, also my name was Rodrigoch back then, wich is a spanish name he probably knew), along with insults, words like "immigrants", racist comments and other kinds of disrespectful trash talk that was really horrible.
Shutting up is not a thing that I particularly like to do, so I answered back at him and the flame war started, and in all that mess i remember quite well this thing that he said that is very disgusting, he said that "us mexicans" cross the border illegally all the time, F#@&$ their women and create "anchors like you" to stay on their country, of course he said it in other words that were worser than that and I'm obviously not going to use them here.

The funny thing is that neither of us were mexicans nor we were living in the US, but I didn't tell him that, because I don't owe anyone jack#@€$, especially to the likes of him.

Later on my friend and the other random left the party because they were really dying a lot, only me and that other person were left... we were almost reaching the boss level and I was willing to let his insults (that were a constant thing he did whenever he found time to do so) slip as long as I was able to get my hands on a few tokens, but a twisted turn of fate decided that I was going to die before that, and what a surprise it was when he didn't care to revive me (and this was in the time where we had health share revives), we both knew that we were not getting that boss killed without one another, I know he knew this perfectly well, he was the party leader and could have kicked me a long time ago before I died if he wanted to do so but no, he let me there abandoned, I was so mad that after I revived with energy I threw some final nasty words at him and went solo. I did kill the Jelly king, however, at the cost of wasting some of my prescious energy... such a shame.

As of now I do not let other people give me a hard time in my game experience, because I don't carry other people and I won't do that ever again, I haven't helped any newbs in their levels either, even when I was a guild leader I rarely ever "helped" newbs, because I came to the realization that carrying people into levels doesn't help them at all, doesn't teach them a thing, it only makes you waste your time to get them some money while they become more dependent on others, at the first sign of a noob party I go solo immediately without a word, I always do better alone anyways.

[Equus ferus caballus] once joined me and some friends in GitM with just an AP, trying to screw us over by making Mechas shield and whatnot. In the end, [Equus ferus caballus] managed to kill everyone but me, even though [Equus ferus caballus] tried bumping lots of enemies into me and triggered tentacles near my hiding spot during the boss battle! [Equus ferus caballus] was disappointed when I would not let [Equus ferus caballus] into my Arcade run a few days later.

There was also that one person who intentionally sent bullets into me during arenas when I had to stop and type. You know, instead of just leading them elsewhere or shielding me.

@Bob You were lucky....

AP in decon zones
blitz in lichen lairs
polaris on frozen vana

You guys should move this to the New Recruits subforum. It just seems like something newbs ought to read.

And on the subject of newbs, I've been playing this game for roughly 4-5 weeks and am already a Defender Elite working on my last Hall of Heroes checkpoint.

I really, really hate scrubs that are always going around telling me how to fight. They see me holding nothing but bombs and are all like 'lol, bombs suck'. Of course, I usually show them up by being the last one alive.

One place you never want to have an open party is when you're going up against the Roarmulus Twins. Goddamn, that place is like a spaz magnet. The boss and the stage aren't the hard part. Your teammates are. Especially if they're a trigger happy, Pulsar toting scrub who doesn't know how to aim AWAY from the switches.

I never decided to get a catalyzer (ill freak out on people who ruin it so I really shouldnt try it)

its really funny when im a party leader and someone joins and tries to control all of us, at some point they eventually start screaming and stuff then when I point out theyre not the party leader they start begging, its one of my favorite arcade hobbies

also when people try to rush candlestick keeps, I make my way to their corpses after 1 minute of killing everything

I want to get a Catalyzer just so I can see all the pretty lights and explosions.

But personally, the one thing that has ticked me off the most is:

• People who only play for damage in LD,
• People who ONLY PLAY for DAMAGE in LD,
• PEOPLE WHO ONLY PLAY FOR DAMAGE IN LD

And yes. I know I stole that from Cross-Over.

You can understand my pain when I'm the only one capping while everyone's hunting for damage.

Makes me wonder why I play LD in the first place.

Tortofist charges wreck stuff. A good spread can put up a solid wall, and CTR +6 means you can put down a new wall shortly after the previous one expires.
Not to mention it gives gunners a 1-2 melee attack + knockback, even if the attack speed is slow.

As for Catalyzers - I've only had one friend hold off attacking a monster (giant slimes) that I've been stacking with catalyzer charges. The rest charge in and kill it before I can detonate. And a party of catalyzers is actually quite fun.

On topic: Further things I hate about teammates:
Spamming DR. My lag is bad enough thank you, don't need it any worse.

People in RT who want to do the switches, and actually don't know how to do them. Its really not that hard.

Worst teammates?
All, myself included.

That moment you're about to kill an enemy in one blitz charge, and you would've gotten away with it too, if it hadn't been for those meddling Knights and their swords, hacking and slashing at any red dots they see, not paying attention to what others are really doing.
Looking at you 80% of all swordsmen....

"Do NOT focus on killing the enemy healers, and instead focus on batting about the other enemies while they're getting healed."

Focusing on getting healers making enemies live longer is considered a bad thing? Please elaborate. :x

I actually stole from another Gremlin who resides in Tier 2, Mender class of Sector 007 of the Clockworks.
I recall him saying "GREMLINS WHO WALK INTO TROJAN SPAWNING AREAS. GREMLINS WHO WALK INTO TROJAN SPAWNING AREAS. PEOPLE WHO WALK INTO TROJAN SPAWNING AREAS."

I thought it was hilarious, but Synthesizer Rulex ordered me to put him down.

Who?

people who try to speedrun in compounds with no bomb